Well, it's a private company. He got really lucky.

Elon rn

Samsonite

11/25/22 11:53am

This is MuskBoard, how dare you post that. Just wait, he has the Midas touch.

Mitty

11/25/22 11:53am

Has Twitter EVER turned a profit?

Blue Print

11/25/22 12:53pm

It's hilarious how detractors want to find fault with the business acumen of the self-made wealthiest man in the world.

Division Bell

11/25/22 1:51pm

"Self made"

Hotlanta

11/25/22 2:40pm

He wasn't a billionaire growing up. But he is now. You're not too far apart in age. What's your excuse?

Division Bell

11/25/22 2:59pm

What's my excuse? I wasn't gifted an emerald mine. Did you even read my post?

Hotlanta

11/25/22 4:01pm

That's nothing compared to what he's generated. What have you done with what you got from your parents?

Division Bell

11/25/22 4:04pm

If only Dad would have gifted me an emerald mine, I would have been Elon Musk.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 4:06pm

Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're moderate... then they are ruthless.

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 4:11pm

I spent a little time in South Africa working with large manufacturers of mining equipment. There

Division Bell

11/25/22 4:45pm

Calcite mine? That's pretty cool.

Shore10

11/25/22 5:50pm

My great grandfather worked at a diamond mine in South Africa. He was a soldier in the Boer war and stayed to work in

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 6:05pm

RE: Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're

OmahaOmaha

11/25/22 6:55pm

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Deleted

11/25/22 9:03pm

I disagree w/ lots of his views but the guy is a serial entrepreneur & self-made

BYU'01

11/25/22 4:27pm

I think Musk’s investment horizon is a little longer than his leftist critics

BYU'01

11/25/22 3:33pm

Sometimes being moral and principled and doing whats right has a cost.

Backcountry

11/25/22 11:54am

Yeah, that's Elon for you

RSL

11/25/22 11:54am

Ah Elon the very moral man

Deleted

11/25/22 12:02pm

Elon haters are something

delinquentcoug

11/25/22 12:12pm

Hes the Ghandi of our time

Backcountry

11/25/22 12:43pm

The most moral person out there, no. But a MAJOR step up from the cesspool

Ode to Hoy

11/25/22 1:38pm

It's entirely possible that he's moral in some situations, but not others. Every person has their weaknesses. In this

Division Bell

11/25/22 2:32pm

Talk about a non sequitur. This is a thread about Musk

downtownchrisbrown

11/25/22 12:31pm

Lol. He is the wealthiest man in the world. Objectively, he is very very good

Ozymandias

11/25/22 11:54am

I mean, data. You lose 50% of your top advertisers you are doing something very

BlooCoog

11/25/22 11:57am

You mean data like he is the wealthiest man in the world and made that money

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:00pm

Or there is a clear attempt to sabotage him from liberal sources who are upset

P-Widdy

11/25/22 12:06pm

This is exactly what is happening.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:11pm

This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority

BlooCoog

11/25/22 12:12pm

Keep telling yourself that.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:15pm

The context is absolutely political. But from the business angle, if he lost 50% of the advertisers, the more

hamaca

11/25/22 12:15pm

Agreed. Not sure he will turn it around.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:18pm

Well, it's a private company. He got really lucky.

Shore10

11/25/22 12:17pm

100% political. The fact you can’t see it isn’t surprising. lol

kotacoug

11/25/22 12:20pm

Or maybe it's willful

novacoug1

11/25/22 12:22pm

I hope one day I am as passionate about something as you are about hating Musk

P-Widdy

11/25/22 12:30pm

Twitter is the highest ever users and usage. So why did they pull out?

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:36pm

and the use of hateful words and phrases are 33% lower than they were pre-purchase.

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:40pm

Hateful words and phrases don't count when they come from the left.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 12:43pm

yeah, then it's just "accuracy, equity, and protesting."

Cougarclaw

11/25/22 4:30pm

It doesn’t distinguish between people saying it and people claiming iit’s used.

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:45pm

Twitter clarified their claim. Using the list of banned hateful words/phrases old-twitter used, then instances of those

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:52pm

Where is this list?

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:53pm

they have not published it...but it's things like the n word etc...

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:55pm

Musk just said it’s the same list Twitter had been using, but didn’t share it

BYUfan92

11/25/22 1:38pm

To virtue signal. Many will be back as there are few alternatives.

Shore10

11/25/22 6:59pm

So having standards is mismanaging business, you probably shouldn’t be a BYU fan

Jizosh

11/25/22 1:03pm

I’m pretty sure that I would hate to be around you in real life.

Grock

11/25/22 1:04pm

Understatement of the year!

TheSpiker

11/25/22 1:06pm

If you can’t see a lot of it is political….yikes

BYUfan92

11/25/22 1:44pm

Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:

Abe Froman

11/25/22 1:59pm

He shoots ... he scores.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 2:02pm

RE: Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:

Backcountry

11/25/22 2:07pm

It really is amazing to watch people on the left totally flip on their thoughts about Musk. The White House held an

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 2:08pm

Typical hypocrisy at its best. Trump was loved by leftists until he was a Rep!

jpal1397

11/25/22 2:10pm

Haha. Can’t think for himself once the leftist OS update goes out.

mulletino

11/25/22 2:43pm

Cracks me up people keep linking to a 4-year-old post that happened before Musk

BlooCoog

11/25/22 4:22pm

Over last 4 years Tesla went from a $50B company to ~$600B. SpaceX’s valuation

BYU'01

11/25/22 4:43pm

And Musk did a bunch of morally questionable things in his business and personal

BlooCoog

11/25/22 5:33pm

Heres an honest question. So what?

Backcountry

11/25/22 5:36pm

He’s been divorced #x & fathered a kid out of wedlock. His LT shareholders have

BYU'01

11/25/22 6:35pm

RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any

FT487

11/25/22 2:40pm

RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority

sethj250

11/25/22 2:45pm

Are you being serious??

SEUTAHCoug

11/25/22 4:59pm

One key - don’t go telling all of your users and customers to vote Republican.

Cswilliam01

11/25/22 3:30pm

Or you’re breaking the paradigm.

Blue Print

11/25/22 1:21pm

Let me guess. You have a MBA and now you can fix any business.

OmahaOmaha

11/25/22 1:35pm

Liberals left like they promised to leave the country if Trump was President.

jpal1397

11/25/22 2:04pm

Either Elon's doing something wrong orrrrr.....Twitter was in fact purposely

BleedCougarBlue2

11/25/22 2:05pm

This. He is owning everyone right now.

Carnac

11/25/22 11:57am

While proclaiming that Musk is LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE!!!

Backcountry

11/25/22 11:58am

why ignore the actual issue and did a logical fallacy

Deleted

11/25/22 12:03pm

Lol. He implied that he isn’t good at running a business I provided a counter

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:05pm

In fairness, a month ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was #167 in world wealth rankings

krindorr

11/25/22 12:12pm

Musk’s success has been much longer sustained and it has been several businesses

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:24pm

Correct, he's been successful with Zip2 (1995), Paypal (1999), SpaceX (2002), and Tesla (2004)

krindorr

11/25/22 12:57pm

Short term lost. They’ll be back. Twitter was broken and needed a fix.

Turnpike Lane

11/25/22 11:55am

Nah. All a myth

Deleted

11/25/22 12:03pm

You really need him to fail on this. Weird.

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:05pm

Which part is a myth? Twitter was losing money, and it was clearly biased.

SnickSnack

11/25/22 12:09pm

RE: Nah. All a myth

Romex

11/25/22 10:54pm

Exactly this. They will be back or they will be replaced.

IrishBlue

11/25/22 12:19pm

Better yet, be replaced with advertisers that are aligned with the new Twitter.

JAGA97

11/25/22 12:24pm

I’m guessing there’s not much Elon could have done to keep those advertisers around, aside from that verification fiasco

Mike Honcho

11/25/22 11:55am

And yet he will probably turn a profit quicker based purely on expense reduction

SnickSnack

11/25/22 11:55am

This. I bet every Big Tech company is asking the same question

jrifkin48

11/25/22 9:51pm

Well he’s also cut expenses by 75%.

RdF3

11/25/22 11:55am

Shhhh that doesn’t help the narrative

maxpowers

11/25/22 1:17pm

If I cut expenses by 75% and my ad revenue drops by 50%,am I still losing money?

Cougarclaw

11/25/22 4:32pm

Does that 75% cut include the additional billion in debt service you took on to

joelvandyne

11/25/22 6:14pm

It’s really nice we have marketing and business genius, BlooCoug, to pronounce the worlds richest man is a terrible

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 11:55am

Johnny, as always you’ve come late. So glad to have you to hurl the personal

BlooCoog

11/25/22 11:58am

Just send it to your mom’s house and I will be sure to pick it up.

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 11:59am

Mom jokes…so mature.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 12:59pm

RE: Mom jokes…so mature.

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 1:14pm

Be good Johnny.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 1:24pm

Welcome to MuskBoard Mrs. Musk, nice to have you here.

Mitty

11/25/22 2:30pm

It's not "MuskBoard" to call out someone making a hypocritical uninformed

TheSpiker

11/25/22 2:34pm

What part of my comment do you disagree with? Should we not wait longer than 3 weeks before calling this a failure?

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 2:38pm

RE: Welcome to MuskBoard Mrs. Musk, nice to have you here.

Backcountry

11/25/22 2:39pm

You have ED-Elon Disease

pegushin

11/25/22 11:55am

That will be the next phrase banned from CB. Moderates no likey.

byubyu

11/25/22 12:12pm

Gross. I’ve heard it’s contagious. Get tested.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 1:26pm

Why did they leave? Because he allowed conservative voices back? Insane.

BYUCougarsFan

11/25/22 11:56am

I recently met with a marketing executive at a CPG firm

novacoug1

11/25/22 11:59am

So he lost companies that paid him about $650M per year... but he's cut expenses by over a billion per year and traffic

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 11:59am

Musk

Backcountry

11/25/22 12:01pm

Horrible businessman…lol

kotacoug

11/25/22 12:21pm

I came to post something like this. Advertisers will have short memories

Powerbait DPM

11/25/22 10:32pm

Seems like Elon has made things twice as effective for the advertisers who stuck

Ojiisan

11/25/22 12:06pm

I thought he announced several weeks ago the move to a subscription-basis?

LeGrandBleu

11/25/22 12:07pm

At least 49 of those 50 companies will be back when they realize it’s not “cool”

COACHdrn

11/25/22 12:13pm

Good riddance.

Shore10

11/25/22 12:13pm

If only Elon had a track record of running businesses so that we had more than 3

Abe Froman

11/25/22 12:13pm

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Buffalo

11/25/22 12:16pm

Go ahead and post your business credentials bloocoug, we’ll compare them to this guy who’s worth 1/4 trillion

JollyGreenGiant

11/25/22 12:17pm

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HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:22pm

I’m sure they will be impressive

kotacoug

11/25/22 12:22pm

RE: Go ahead and post your business credentials bloocoug, we’ll compare

maxpowers

11/25/22 12:46pm

What're your business credentials ?

Deleted

11/25/22 12:59pm

I just bought 200 acres in Costa Rica to build a coconut farm. And obviously

maxpowers

11/25/22 1:21pm

RE: I just bought 200 acres in Costa Rica to build a coconut farm. And obviously

Backcountry

11/25/22 1:31pm

Nice! Congrats. Would be cool to see.

Deleted

11/25/22 2:32pm

What are yours?

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 1:43pm

RE: What are yours?

maxpowers

11/25/22 1:44pm

I just asked a ?, I didnt accuse someone else of not having any.

Deleted

11/25/22 1:58pm

He just asked a ?, he didn’t accuse you of not having any.

hamaca

11/25/22 2:01pm

Nice backpeddle

Backcountry

11/25/22 2:09pm

And maxpowers has quite a nice resume of business ownership and entrepreneurship. He started his own company a few years

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 2:22pm

RE: And maxpowers has quite a nice resume of business ownership and

maxpowers

11/25/22 2:42pm

that's a defensive response to your own question.

Belboz

11/25/22 2:48pm

It’s better to be flat out aggressive vs passive aggressive. Just saying

delinquentcoug

11/25/22 3:36pm

Yes because it was about Elon’s business decisions. It’s all ideology

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:20pm

Meanwhile, Twitter is getting more free publicity than ever before. Are these

Great38

11/25/22 12:22pm

WSJ reported they moved their dollars to TikTok. That bastion of Americanism.

P-Widdy

11/25/22 12:32pm

RE: WSJ reported they moved their dollars to TikTok. That bastion of

Ungoy

11/25/22 6:15pm

Wait. . . Why do we care if Twitter loses advertisers?

Zoobieman

11/25/22 12:32pm

RE: Twitter loses 50 of top 100 advertisers. Elon Musk is really great at

TheSpiker

11/25/22 12:38pm

They will all come back. Money trumps all

maxpowers

11/25/22 12:40pm

Elon has lost 100 billion so far. Money says all

Deleted

11/25/22 12:48pm

Money says all

Backcountry

11/25/22 12:55pm

Ha ha ha and he’s still the richest person in the world!

delinquentcoug

11/25/22 12:56pm

Which billionaire hasn’t lost billions? Did you see Zuckerberg lost 60%.

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 1:23pm

He thinks a decline in stock price is the same thing as losing money.

Abe Froman

11/25/22 1:35pm

This is amazing …

EMAC

11/25/22 12:58pm

Glad you’re admitting his Twitter debacle is a foul ball. It’s actually more of

BlooCoog

11/25/22 1:03pm

Dunning-Krueger effect

EMAC

11/25/22 1:13pm

I like to think of it as the Freddy Krueger effect.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 6:26pm

Glad you’re admitting the undeniable fact that Musk’s track record is incredibly

Abe Froman

11/25/22 1:16pm

I’m willing to get a twitter account now. They are just trying their cancel

DevilCougarDragon

11/25/22 12:59pm

Even $44B for him isn’t chump change

runningryan

11/25/22 1:03pm

What exactly are they protesting?

I'mBatman

11/25/22 1:05pm

Smart choice. Advertisers who don't suck at liberty will be glad to get in on the rising tide.

Division Bell

11/25/22 1:26pm

Never understood Trump and Elon fan boys

GA_Coug

11/25/22 1:42pm

You really don't understand the rise of Trump or why people like Elon?

SnickSnack

11/25/22 1:50pm

People can’t separate ideology from there actions.

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 2:23pm

Never understood Trump and Elon haters.

84 natlchamps

11/25/22 3:18pm

Tuck it back in and stop obsessing about Elon

GerryWorld

11/25/22 1:45pm

Perv

BlooCoog

11/25/22 6:22pm

Unmuting people with differing opinions has consequences. But they'll be back, quietly.

John Doe

11/25/22 1:54pm

RE: Twitter loses 50 of top 100 advertisers. Elon Musk is really great at

CougarTailDevourer

11/25/22 1:59pm

Based on history I’d say Musk is a decent guy to bet on figuring it out, initial

BYUfan92

11/25/22 2:09pm

If only he were as smart as you…

cougarnw

11/25/22 2:12pm

Twitter lost 50% of advertisers because 50% of corporate American hates diversit

King of Y

11/25/22 2:19pm

Yep. All companies that lean hard left

OldFogey

11/25/22 5:00pm

RE: Twitter lost 50% of advertisers because 50% of corporate American hates diversit

Deleted

11/25/22 5:33pm

It wasn't a financial decision to buy Twitter

CharlottesvilleCoug

11/25/22 2:30pm

Valid point. more philanthropic to ensure freedom of speech on social media

zerome4sooners

11/25/22 6:05pm

You should do some further digging

BlackBart

11/25/22 2:31pm

Hasn’t he significantly already boosted users in his short time there?

zerome4sooners

11/25/22 2:47pm

Bloocoug … take the “L” and close shop! No one agrees w/you about Musk. EDS 👀

jpal1397

11/25/22 3:06pm

Your obsession with successful men should be concerning to those who know you.

WizeGuise

11/25/22 4:16pm

Especially his clients

Backcountry

11/25/22 4:22pm

Sounds Wize. Don’t think I’m obsessed with anyone, although I truly enjoy poking

BlooCoog

11/25/22 6:25pm

You seem to talk about him more than anyone else here. Soooo….

zerome4sooners

11/25/22 6:27pm

Musk bugs, so I enjoy bugging his admirers. I did the same thing with Trump

BlooCoog

11/25/22 6:33pm

Shocking! I never would’ve guessed

zerome4sooners

11/25/22 7:06pm

So you admit you’re a troll?

delinquentcoug

11/25/22 6:39pm

RE: So you admit you’re a troll?

Ungoy

11/25/22 6:43pm

Trolls are scary.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 7:41pm

No just dumb.

delinquentcoug

11/25/22 7:46pm

So 50% of the advertisers but not the advertising dollars

BYU Grounds

11/25/22 5:22pm

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BYU Grounds

11/25/22 5:24pm

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BYU Grounds

11/25/22 5:24pm

Elon to bloocoog:

maxpowers

11/25/22 6:35pm

So pervy.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 8:36pm

That's no way to talk about AOC, even if it's true.

Division Bell

11/25/22 9:38pm

Seems he is cleaning house and wants to rid his company of dead weight policies and people

Probable Sacko

11/25/22 8:03pm

So only half of what was probably liberal-owned advertisers left? Not bad

ColonelMustard

11/26/22 9:42am

Mock him if you want, but I don't know anyone here on Cougarboard that has made

84 natlchamps

11/26/22 7:56pm

Posting on CougarBoard